Re: [PATCH v1] seq_file: Fix overflow condition in seq_commit

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On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:36:22AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>
>> Aha.  _That_ is a bug, all right - dynamic_dname() is simply not suitable
>> for that kind of uses.  ashmem.c is certainly abusing shmem_file_setup();
>> feeding that kind of mess as dentry name is a Bad Idea(tm).  Anyway,
>> I'd suggest this for a fix:
>>
>>       va_list args;
>>       size_t sz;
>>       va_start(args, fmt);
>>       sz = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, args) + 1;
>>       va_end(args);
>>       if (sz > buflen)
>>               return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
>>       va_start(args, fmt);
>>       buffer += buflen - sz;
>>       vsprintf(buffer, fmt, args);
>>       va_end(args);
>>       return buffer;
>>
>> Either right in dynamic_dname(), or as possibly_fucking_long_dname(),
>> to be used by shmem.c...
>
> Actually, looking at the users of dynamic_dname()...  Most of them are
> fine with dynamic_dname() as it is, with 2 possible exceptions:
> hugetlb_dname() and shmem_dname().  Both are using "/%s (deleted)",
> dentry->d_name.name as format...  So the solution above may very
> well be an overkill; something like
>
> char *simple_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
> {
>         char *end = buffer + buflen;
>         /* these dentries are never renamed, so d_lock is not needed */
>         if (prepend(&end, &buflen, " (deleted)", 11) ||
>             prepend_name(&end, &buflen, &dentry->d_name) ||
>             prepend(&end, &buflen, "/", 1))
>                 end = ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
>         return end;
> }
>
> will do for those two.  Care to test the diff below?
>
> cope with potentially long ->d_dname() output for shmem/hugetlb
>
> dynamic_dname() is both too much and too little for those - the
> output may be well in excess of 64 bytes dynamic_dname() assumes
> to be enough (thanks to ashmem feeding really long names to
> shmem_file_setup()) and vsnprintf() is an overkill for those
> guys.
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
> index 87bdb53..83cfb83 100644
> --- a/fs/dcache.c
> +++ b/fs/dcache.c
> @@ -2724,6 +2724,17 @@ char *dynamic_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen,
>         return memcpy(buffer, temp, sz);
>  }
>
> +char *simple_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
> +{
> +       char *end = buffer + buflen;
> +       /* these dentries are never renamed, so d_lock is not needed */
> +       if (prepend(&end, &buflen, " (deleted)", 11) ||
> +           prepend_name(&end, &buflen, &dentry->d_name) ||
> +           prepend(&end, &buflen, "/", 1))
> +               end = ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
> +       return end;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Write full pathname from the root of the filesystem into the buffer.
>   */
> diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> index a3f868a..4e5f332 100644
> --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> @@ -916,14 +916,8 @@ static int get_hstate_idx(int page_size_log)
>         return h - hstates;
>  }
>
> -static char *hugetlb_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
> -{
> -       return dynamic_dname(dentry, buffer, buflen, "/%s (deleted)",
> -                               dentry->d_name.name);
> -}
> -
>  static struct dentry_operations anon_ops = {
> -       .d_dname = hugetlb_dname
> +       .d_dname = simple_dname
>  };
>
>  /*
> diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
> index b90337c..4a12532 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dcache.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
> @@ -336,6 +336,7 @@ extern int d_validate(struct dentry *, struct dentry *);
>   * helper function for dentry_operations.d_dname() members
>   */
>  extern char *dynamic_dname(struct dentry *, char *, int, const char *, ...);
> +extern char *simple_dname(struct dentry *, char *, int);
>
>  extern char *__d_path(const struct path *, const struct path *, char *, int);
>  extern char *d_absolute_path(const struct path *, char *, int);
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 8335dbd..e43dc55 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -2909,14 +2909,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shmem_truncate_range);
>
>  /* common code */
>
> -static char *shmem_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
> -{
> -       return dynamic_dname(dentry, buffer, buflen, "/%s (deleted)",
> -                               dentry->d_name.name);
> -}
> -
>  static struct dentry_operations anon_ops = {
> -       .d_dname = shmem_dname
> +       .d_dname = simple_dname
>  };
>
>  /**
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Can this patch (committed as 118b23022512eb2f41ce42db70dc0568d00be4ba
upstream) go in stable?  It fixes a regression introduced in 3.9
dumping /proc/pid/maps for processes with ashmem regions with long
names.
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